Reply #66: rather than anointing himself with cooking grease... [View All]

[RainDog]

John Ashcroft would have been more in keeping with the rituals of his faith if he had used cannabis oil. maybe then he wouldn't have felt the overwhelming need to spend $8000 dollars for a shroud to cover (the breast of) a statue representing justice - or to arrest Tommy Chong.

...but the symbolism was so apt.

as was the use of Crisco™ instead of this plant that seems to have had a symbiotic relationship with humans for thousands of years.

I hope this answer to the request for rescheduling starts moving this issue forward at the federal level because people in states are not going to back down. The drug war is over concerning cannabis, but the Feds just cannot accept this yet. Washington D.C. has had to wait for a decade as Congress held up implementation of the medical marijuana bill the people there voted into law - Congress has the power to assign funds for the implementation and simply refused to fund what was democratically decided by people in D.C.

...again, the symbolism is so apt to describe the gap between the will of the people and the corruption of those elected to implement that will.